Intellectual Property Analyst

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking an Intellectual Property Analyst to join our Intellectual Property Management Division within our Technology Strategy & Planning Department (TS&PD).

TS&PD provides critical and timely information and develops execution strategies to align company projects with value-driven deployments in high impact areas which offer the company a significant, distinctive and sustainable competitive advantage in its core businesses. TS&PD also assures that intellectual property protection and management are coordinated with the ultimate objective of the technology strategy.

Your primary role is to perform patent research to support various Intellectual Property (IP) activities, including: patentability search, freedom to operate, competitive intelligence, IP benchmarking, IP landscaping, IP mining, and IP due diligence. You will also support the development of Aramco’s Intellectual Property portfolio (patents, copyrights, and trade secrets), including analysis of invention disclosures and working with inventors and in-house IP counsels on patent prosecution activities.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

1. Conduct prior art search to support our customers in making patent related decisions including patentability and freedom-to-operate.
2. Perform competitive and benchmark analysis of patents and the commercial product landscape to support the assessment of companies for mergers & acquisitions (M&A) or investment.
3. Prepare IP landscape reports to support Research & Development (R&D) decision-making.
4. Perform IP analysis of Aramco’s portfolio to support invention disclosure reviews.
5. Perform IP due-diligence tasks and patent portfolios to report to management and key stakeholders.
6. Support patent creation, prosecution, protection, and maintenance decisions.

Minimum Requirements

1. As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related Scientific Field. A Master’s degree in Intellectual Property or Data Analytics is preferred.
2. You will have a minimum of 7 years’ experience, including at least 5 years in patent search and analytics.
3. You must have experience with IP search databases, including: Derwent Innovation, Questel, Patsnap, and Minesoft.
4. Advanced MS Excel skills are required.
5. Familiarity with PowerBI is preferred.

Working Environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical, and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.

Country/Region: SA